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  • #1
    Andri E. Elia
    “The last kiss was the kiss goodbye.”
    Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

  • #2
    Adam Scott Huerta
    “The fuck is this shit?" it says. "Can you bloody believe this shit?" "No, honey," I say. "This is absolutely ridiculous." "Aren't you pissed the fuck off?" "Someone really should do something about this." "Why don't we bloody do something about it?" "Yeah, why don't we?" I say. "But how." "Well, we find whatever prick is in charge and give the fucker a piece of our minds, of course." ”
    Adam Scott Huerta, Motive Black

  • #3
    Sherman Kennon
    “A silent breeze swept away a moment, one that never can be recaptured, never can it be relived. So it is for us to cherish the  moments, cherish them with all of our might. For just as an eagle in flight, they are transient, soon vanishing like the moon as day return the light.”
    Sherman Kennon, Whisk Of Dust: Too Unseen Distance

  • #4
    Steven Decker
    “From here, we can see the line of time stretching in opposite directions for eternity. You see, Edward, there is no beginning and no end of time. The past, present, and future are all happening at once.”
    Steven Decker, One More Life to Live

  • #5
    Raz Mihal
    “Going further into the composition of an existential void, we find that the reflection of divine love’s existence creates it. It’s the surrender of divine love, perceiving its existence through our souls.”
    Raz Mihal, Just Love Her

  • #6
    K.  Ritz
    “Which is the greater sin? To care too much? Or too little?”
    K. Ritz, Sheever's Journal, Diary of a Poison Master

  • #7
    Rebecca Harlem
    “You are not the first person to come here, and you will most likely not be the last. Many souls have arrived here in quest of this thing before you and will continue to do so after you. Here, everything revolves in a circle. You must have noticed that some events in your life are also occurring in the lives of others. Or you’re meeting people with the same name again.”
    Rebecca Harlem, The Pink Cadillac

  • #8
    Alan    Bradley
    “Magic is hard on our world. Pulling it in is really violent and damaging. The more we use it, the more we stretch out the membrane between this world and the one we draw it in from. And the other side…' She looked at Maldonado and he nodded. 'Well, it’s toxic.”
    Alan Bradley, The Sixth Borough

  • #9
    Mike  Martin
    “I don’t eat cauliflower,” said Tizzard after thinking about it for a while. “My dad says that ‘a cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education’.”
    “I think that’s Mark Twain,” said Windflower.
    “And my dad,” said Tizzard.”
    Mike Martin, Too Close For Comfort

  • #10
    Simone de Beauvoir
    “Woman is not a fixed reality but a becoming; she has to be compared with man in her becoming; that is, her possibilities have to be defined: what skews the issues so much is that she is being reduced to what she was, to what she is today, while the question concerns her capacities; the fact is that her capacities manifest themselves clearly only when they have been realized: but the fact is also that when one considers a being who is transcendence and surpassing, it is never possible to close the books.”
    Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

  • #11
    Adam Smith
    “It is not for its own sake that men desire money, but for the sake of what they can purchase with it.”
    Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

  • #12
    Andrew  Davidson
    “If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.”
    Andrew Davidson, The Gargoyle

  • #13
    Frank Herbert
    “Religion, too, is a weapon. What manner of weapon is religion when it becomes the government?”
    Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah

  • #14
    Neal Stephenson
    “He had some measure of the infuriating trait that causes a young man to be a nonconformist for its own sake and found that the surest way to shock most people, in those days, was to believe that some kinds of behavior were bad and others good, and that it was reasonable to live one's life accordingly.”
    Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

  • #15
    William Faulkner
    “Father was teaching us that all men are just accumulations dolls stuffed with sawdust swept up from the trash heaps where all previous dolls had been thrown away the sawdust flowing from what wound in what side that not for me died not”
    William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury



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